[Magdalen] The Donald.

Lesley de Voil lesleymdv at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 22:54:13 UTC 2015


I love the word "blowie", an Ockerism made by the Aussie <Grin>
inclination to domestify anything by adding "ee" or "ie," you know, as
in "Geez, youse kids, shut that bl**dy screen door before you let the
blowies in!"

Regards
Lesley de Voil

On 7/27/15, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> I learned a new word today --- "bloviate".   This was used by an  article
> excerpted from the Des Moines, IA USA "Register".  the term was used  by
> the paper to describe the campaign technique of Donald Trump,  stumping
> Iowa.  It means to speak or write verbosely and windily.  Later,  the same
> article refers to Trump as a "blowhard".  I guess they both mean about  the
> same thing.
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> I am reminded of Charles DeGaulle ("Le Grand Charles") late French
> leader who famously was quoted as saying that he "loved Germany."  in  fact
> he "loved Germany so much" he "was happy there are two of them"   (East
> and West Germany).
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> Well, I just love Donald Trump.  I like him so much that I hope he  decides
> to create his own political party and run for President as an  Independent.
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> David S.
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